As seen in this report Of course, it pays to remember that psychiatrists have no real objective tests for their catalog of diseases. The only reason the shrink would do this is because his diagnostics tools are inadequate for the job. Useless, in fact.
A psychiatrist who hired a private detective agency to spy on a police officer because he thought he was "faking" illness has been banned from practising for two months.
Nicholas Cooling, 50, of Arundel Close, Battersea, paid for a surveillance team to follow PC Robert Millar.
Dr Cooling had been recruited by the West Midlands Police Force to stamp out the high number of cops taking early retirement through ill health.
He saw Mr Millar three times following a car crash in the line of duty in 1998.
But Dr Cooling only diagnosed him with a low level of brain injury and became convinced that Mr Millar,now 35, was looking for an easy ticket out of the force and to receive a pension through injury.
In May 2002, he decided to have the officer filmed covertly and gave an agency details of the patient, including his address.
But the General Medical Council ruled that Dr Cooling had acted inappropriately by giving out such information and found his fitness to practise impaired. He was suspended for two months on Thursday.
Dr Cooling had admitted all the charges,but denied his fitness to practise was impaired.
PC Millar has since returned to work in a desk-bound role.
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